The Water Bowl: Abused Texas Dog on the Mend – Thanks to Facebook

Buck the dog was left to die: He was found stuffed in a garbage bag after someone shot him in the head and face with a pellet gun. But with the help of a Facebook campaign kick-started to help pay for his $5,000 veterinary bills, he's recovering at a Texas animal clinic. Police are currently investigating the incident. –Yahoo! News

Thanks to a nosy – but nifty! – dog, a man was arrested and charged with robbery. The canine found an envelope containing $12,000 in cash, which had been stolen during a fraudulent car sale. –AP

The latest clue in a cat and mouse-style chase after a computer hacker has come in the form of – you guessed it – a feline. Japan's central law enforcement agency captured a cat carrying a memory card police linked to the hacker who's been sending anonymous bomb threats to schools, shopping malls and airlines. –Mashable

For the first time, humans visited a 9,000-resident penguin colony in East Antarctica. Proof these penguins existed first surfaced in 2009 when satellites captured pictures of snow with large stains, which scientists presumed to be penguin feces. –Discovery News